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For 12 years after George Washington's inauguration, the infant
federal government had been directed by a Hamiltonian design for
national greatness. The election of 1800, Jefferson informed one
correspondent, was “as real a revolution in the principles of our
government as that of 1776 was in its form”. The Jeffersonian
Republicans would set the revolution back, on its republican and
popular foundations. Transfer of power was a accomplished
without bloodshed prompted Jefferson set out to implement his
republican ideas by limiting the power of the federal government.
Jefferson sold his personal library to congress in 1815. The last
years of his life were spent in retirement at Monticello. During
which period he founded, designed, and directed the building of the
university of Virginia . The plan of the city of Washington was
deigned in 1791 by Pierre L’ Enfant, and mapped the following
year. Jan.24. 1791, President George Washington announced the
Congressionally– designated permanent location of the national
capital, a diamond-shape.